For furnishing water at the Rail
road tank (where it had to be pumped by a steam engine) for
the use of the Post, including Quartermaster & Commissary
Departments & Hospital for the month of Sept 1864

$50

00

I certify that the above account is
correct and just, that the services were rendered as stated; and that
they were necessary for the public service. this being a prairie
country & no other means of obtaining water

J. M. Billings Maj & Quartermaster

Received at Okolona the 30 day of Sept 1864, of Major J.
M Billings Quartermaster C. S. Army Fifty dollars
and cents, in full of the above account.